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Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie is set to return with a new work of fiction, "The Eleventh Hour", his first since the release of "Victor City" in 2023, Penguin Random House India (PRHI) announced on Thursday. The collection of stories, scheduled to release on November 4, is touted to be "a moving, masterful collection of stories that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities". It will be published under Penguin's 'Hamish' imprint in India. "The three novellas in this volume, all written in the last twelve months, explore themes and places that have been much on my mind - mortality, Bombay, farewells, England (especially Cambridge), anger, peace, America. And Goya and Kafka and Bosch as well. "I'm happy that the stories, very different from one another in setting, story and technique, nevertheless manage to be in conversation with one another, and with the two stories that serve as prologue and epilogue to this threesome. I hav